Residents of the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories have started to flee an approaching wildfire in long convoys of cars, while air evacuations are underway for those who cannot leave by ...

Nearly all 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories, have evacuated, while thousands more in neighboring British Columbia have fled, too.

Remote fire study Last summer, our team visited sites in the southern Northwest Territories that had ignited in 2014, experienced overwintering fire, and reignited in 2015.